He had some apprehensions, as relative to things unknown.
One reason for this is that these functions are not considered by traditional business to be "core," relative to things like finance or manufacturing.
I'd guess nothing less than a negative tax rate would lead him to move, which should tell us something about the importance of tax rates for economic growth relative to things like human capital concentration.
Emile Durkheim, who pretty much founded the scientific study of religion, defined it as "a unified set of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and surrounded by prohibitions – beliefs and practices that unite its adherents in a single moral community called a church".
Perhaps the point is simply to see that, given the appropriate distinctions, there is something to be said either way, with the implication that the correct answer to the question 'Is the good the same as the bad, or different?' is 'In one way (i.e., relative to different things) the same, in another (i.e., relative to the same thing) different' (see Protagoras 334a c).
Difference is distinct from being, because difference is always relative to other things (pros alla), whereas being is both itself by itself (auto kath' hauto) and relative to other things (pros alla).
The best you can do is see how its price has performed relative to other things (see chart).
"There are more players in town, and the others are closing the gap relative to the things Yahoo is good at," Mr. Cohen said.
Still, said Donald Marron, director of the Tax Policy Center and a former economics adviser in the George W. Bush administration, "Relative to other things you could do on the tax side, it's a pretty attractive stimulus".
In particular, attempting to get a shot of it from a mobile phone was nearly impossible — though the moon was big, it was still fairly small relative to most things, and phone's lack of a decent zoom meant that it was quite small.
Probably not much relative to other things going on, although it is certainly good news for them.
